David Normington is a retired Civil Servant who between 2011 and 2016 served as both the First Civil Service Commissioner and the Commissioner for Public Appointments for the British government. Peter Hennessy was Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London and the author of numerous works on British history. Claire Foster-Gilbert is currently member of the British Medical Association's Medical Ethics Committee, Unilever's Central Research Ethics Advisory Committee, and the McDonald Centre for public theology and ethics.